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DFG Research Group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi) | Exploring the intersection of human rights and migration in law, politics, and everyday life | www.medimi.de/en

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This paper presents key findings from our legal research on the ECtHR’s case law in the field of migration. Take a look to prepare for the #MeDiMiConference2026!

#ECtHR #MigrationLaw #HumanRights #MeDiMi #Humanrightization

18.02.2026 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 MeDiMi Working Paper No. 3 is out now!

📚 Jürgen Bast & Janna Wessels:
“The Trajectory of the European Court of Human Rights in Migration Matters”

👉 Available on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/de/article/2...

18.02.2026 07:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🚨 Reminder!

⏱️ Only one week left to submit your proposals for the #MeDiMiConference2026!

More info 👇

16.02.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Die DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft“ (MeDiMi) veranstaltet vom 7.–8. Mai 2026 in Gießen eine Konferenz mit dem Titel „Humanrightization in Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences“.... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30455

10.02.2026 13:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
DeZIM-Konferenz 2026 07. – 09.10 2026 – Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG), Bielefeld

📣 Call for Papers | DeZIM-Konferenz 2026
🗓 07.–09.10.2026 | 📍 Bielefeld
Unter dem Titel „Die umkämpfte Normalität der Migration“ lädt die DeZIM-Konferenz interdisziplinäre Beiträge aus Wissenschaft, Politik & Praxis ein.

🔗 www.dezim-institut.de/veranstaltun...

05.02.2026 12:30 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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This talk works to contextualize events in Minneapolis within the current administration’s discursive strategy of attacking Renée Good and Alex Pretti and denying responsibility for their deaths after they were shot by ICE agents.

02.02.2026 10:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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📣 Lecture alert!

👩‍🏫 👩‍🏫 Our researchers @greta-olson.org and Simona Adinolfi on “The Affective Resonances of Images of #Migration versus Migrants’ #HumanRights”

📅 29 January, 6 pm.

📍Institut für #Anglistik / #Amerikanistik, Universität #Osnabrück, Neuer Graben 29/Schloss, Raum 11/211

Details 👇

27.01.2026 15:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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📣 Call for Papers!

▶️ #Humanrightization in #Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences

📄 We look forward to your proposals for the #MeDiMiConference2026

📅 May 7–8, 2026

📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen

⏰ Deadline: 23 February 2026

Details: 👇

27.01.2026 15:08 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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MeDiMi Working Paper Nr. 2 | 2025 Vermenschenrechtlichung. Thesen zu einer Theorie migrationsgesellschaftlicher Diskurspraxis. Diskussionspapier

🚨 Reminder: #MeDiMiConference2026 is coming up in May 2026! 🚨

📅 May 7–8, 2026
📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen

👉 Stay tuned for the #CallforPapers coming up in January 2026!

👉 In case you missed it: Check out the MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2: www.medimi.de/de/article/2...

17.12.2025 08:41 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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👉 Check out @laura-holderied.bsky.social’s research on #VisualPolitics and representations of refugees after Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine 2022.

#MeDiMi #Migration #HumanRights #Borders #BorderPolitics

16.12.2025 22:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees after Russia’s 2022 Invasion Abstract. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and people started to flee the war, differences in treatment between Ukrainian refugees and non-Whit

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🚨 Publication alert!

📚 Laura Holderied:

“Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees After Russia’s 2022 Invasion”

👉 Published in International Political Sociology, 19(4), 2025: academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

16.12.2025 22:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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The presentation was held at the #MeDiMi working meeting 2025 - many thanks to our Marburg-based team!

#Humanrightization #EverydayCulture #Sociology #HumanRights #Migration

15.12.2025 10:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🎬Check out the next #MeDiMiInsights video!

💡Dariuš Zifonun, Tasnim Jabaly, and Sebastian Weste: “Reflections on the Everyday Culture of Human Rights”

👉 The talk presents key interim results from our sociological project on “doing human rights” in the everyday (🗣️ 🇩🇪).

👉 youtu.be/Hl9msPPsOQY

15.12.2025 10:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Human Rights Transformations of German Migration Law Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Frederik von Harbou Research Associate: Adriana Kessler University of Applied Sciences Jena

(3/3) ❗This article presents key findings from the #MeDiMi project "Human Rights Transformations of German Migration Law".

👉 For more information on this MeDiMi project, see www.medimi.de/en/article/6...

05.12.2025 09:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Human Rights Transformations of German Migration Law Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Frederik von Harbou Research Associate: Adriana Kessler University of Applied Sciences Jena

(2/3) 💡The article traces how actors made references to #humanrights relevant in the context of German #migration law. Assessing this #humanrightization serves to identify strategies for human rights argumentation and highlights promising, but yet underexplored arguments for future litigation.

05.12.2025 09:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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(1/3) 📢 Publication alert!

📝 Adriana Kessler and Frederik von Harbou (2025) #Menschenrechte im deutschen #Migrationsrecht. Argumente und Akteure, Asylmagazin, Issue 10–11, 17–24.

05.12.2025 09:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨 Publication alert!

📚 Anna Arden:

"Intersecting #EnforcedDisappearance and #Migration:
The Creation of a New Legal Tool against #Pushbacks within #WGEID and #CED"

👉 Key Results from our legal project on the EU's #BorderRegimes

👉 Published OA in NQHR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

25.11.2025 13:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

📢 Join us tomorrow for a discussion on #humanrightization in the professional everyday!

03.11.2025 09:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(3/3) 💬 Subsequent panel discussion with:

👩‍🏫 Hannah Franke (Promotionszentrum Soziale Arbeit Hessen)
👨‍🏫 Dr. Matthias Lehnert (Lawyer, Leipzig)
👨‍🏫 Dr. Benjamin Bunk (JLU Giessen)
👩‍🏫 Moderation: Adriana Kessler (EAH Jena)

#Migration #Humanrights #Socialwork #Sozialarbeit #Menschenrechte

14.10.2025 06:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(2/3) 🧑‍🏫 Introductory lecture by Prof. Nivedita Prasad (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin): Commitment to Human Rights: Structural Changes in the Context of Social Work.

14.10.2025 06:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Live MeDiMi Impuls: Menschenrechtsschutz von Migrant:innen zwischen Anwaltschaft und Sozialer Arbeit YouTube video by Research Group MeDiMi

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#MeDiMiImpulse: Human Rights Protection of Migrants: Between the Legal Profession and Social Work.

🗣️ Language: 🇩🇪

📆 4.11.2025

🕑 2-5:30 pm CET

📍Johannisplatz 26, 07743 Jena + online

Register by 28.10. via mtdm@eah-jena.de.

Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/y_8X6mT...

14.10.2025 06:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Common Futures for All. Refugee Activism enacting Human Rights between Negation of Rights and Rexistance in Germany - JEP Journal für Entwicklungspolitik This article addresses refugee struggles for common futures in the everyday that result from the organisation of everyday life under conditions of structural, cultural (Galtung and Fischer 2013) and ordinary violence (Das 2006; Dilts et al. 2012) within the context of the coloniality of migration and necroborders (Gutiérrez Rodríguez 2018, 2023). We approach this issue...

(2/2) Access via Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 👇 doi.org/10.20446/JEP...

24.09.2025 08:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📚 Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez / Slađana Branković:

"Common Futures for All. Refugee Activism Enacting #HumanRights between Negation of Rights and Rexistance in Germany"

👉 Key Results from our project on #Refugees' & #UndocumentedMigrants' protests movements

24.09.2025 08:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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🙏 Many thanks to the organizers and discussants for this excellent opportunity to present our research!

22.09.2025 16:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Sofía participated in a panel on “Structural Litigation in International and National Courts”. Her presentation explored how the Inter-American Court is moving from a structural litigation model toward a transformative social approach, especially in migration and environmental rights.

22.09.2025 16:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🚀 MeDiMi at the 2025 ICON•S Conference
@icon-s.bsky.social in Brasília!

🎓 MeDiMi's Sofía Reca Milanta presented her research from our project on the Inter-American and the European Court of Human Rights, led by ICON•S Co-President @mhailbronner.bsky.social at @uni-muenster.de.

22.09.2025 16:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

New blog post by MeDiMi researchers on the incompatibility of restrictions on #refugees’ access to #healthcare with Germany’s #humanrights obligations 👇

15.09.2025 13:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Snapshot Dr. Schmalz
Snapshot Dr. Schmalz YouTube video by Vienna Centre for Migration and Law

Hear me talk about integration in this short snapshot video from the Vienna Centre for Migration & Law (VCML) @univie.ac.at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6f...

14.09.2025 09:47 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jetzt erschienen: das Jahrbuch des Migrationsrechts 2024/25 (Hrsg. Berlit/Hoppe/Kluth), in dem ich ein Kapitel zur Rechtsprechung des EGMR beisteuern durfte. www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/jahrbuc... @nomosverlag.bsky.social

11.09.2025 15:04 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Text reads: Beyond the Spectacle. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm. TraCe Annual Conference Marburg, November 19 – 21, 2025.
DIALOGPANEL (in GERMAN)
Gewalt in Zeitlupe: Fehlende Aufmerksamkeit für schleichende Zerstörung
Theresa Deichert (Kunsthistorikerin & Kuratorin), Carla Hinrichs (Klimaaktivistin),
Anika Oettler (Soziologin) & Jakob Simmank (Gesundheitsjournalist)  
Moderation: Verena Mischitz

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (IN ENGLISH)
with more than 40 presenters on 8 panels and keynotes from
Rachel Pain (Newcastle University) & Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture).

Logos of Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, TraCe and the BMFTR are displayed. Picture shows a close-up of mold in black and white.

Text reads: Beyond the Spectacle. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm. TraCe Annual Conference Marburg, November 19 – 21, 2025. DIALOGPANEL (in GERMAN) Gewalt in Zeitlupe: Fehlende Aufmerksamkeit für schleichende Zerstörung Theresa Deichert (Kunsthistorikerin & Kuratorin), Carla Hinrichs (Klimaaktivistin), Anika Oettler (Soziologin) & Jakob Simmank (Gesundheitsjournalist) Moderation: Verena Mischitz SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (IN ENGLISH) with more than 40 presenters on 8 panels and keynotes from Rachel Pain (Newcastle University) & Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture). Logos of Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, TraCe and the BMFTR are displayed. Picture shows a close-up of mold in black and white.

📢 TraCe Annual Conference 2025

Join our fourth annual conference “Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm”, from November 19–21 in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social!

📝 Registration: eveeno.com/slow-violence
🔗 Program: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

03.09.2025 14:31 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1